Tremendous Bowl LVIII between the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs went into additional time, testing the brand new rule authorized by the league two years in the past.
Below the previous guidelines adopted in 2010, if the crew that possessed the ball first in additional time scored a landing on that drive, it gained the sport. The opposite offense by no means acquired an opportunity to even take the sphere.
Alternatively, if the crew possessing the ball first kicked a subject purpose, the opposite crew acquired an opportunity to win the sport with a landing or tie it with a subject purpose. At that time, the sport turns into a sudden-death state of affairs.
The playoff additional time guidelines authorized in 2022 assured every crew a possession. If the crew that possesses the ball first doesn’t rating a landing, or if the rating is tied after every crew has had a possession, then sudden loss of life units in, and the subsequent rating wins the sport.
Former New York Giants nice Tiki Barber believes the additional time guidelines within the postseason are nonsense, claiming they make the clock irrelevant.
Tiki goes off on the “absolute nonsense” of the NFL’s new playoff additional time guidelines: pic.twitter.com/BtH8tL4brm
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“The brand new NFL additional time rule within the playoffs is nonsense. It’s absolute nonsense. To make a clock imply nothing is nonsense,” Barber mentioned Monday on WFAN. “The clock has to finish the sport. I perceive why they do it this manner since you wish to be truthful. However it takes all urgency out of soccer.
“I hate that. Soccer, in my thoughts, is competing in opposition to an opponent. However it’s additionally competing in opposition to these forces that constrain you. It’s the sphere, it’s the officers, and it’s the clock. And additional time within the NFL playoffs, they’ve neutered the clock, and it is senseless to me.”
I perceive his level, however take note, it’s the postseason. The sport wants to provide a winner. Within the previous days (suppose the 1958 NFL Championship between the Giants and Baltimore Colts) it was a real sudden-death affair — first crew to attain wins.
The clock ticked, nevertheless it clearly was irrelevant when it got here to urgency as Tiki was intimating. Isn’t that principally nonetheless the case? The one distinction between 1958 and as we speak is that each groups get a shot because the clock ticks within the background, albeit pointlessly.
